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[Jazzrook]

Albert Ayler Quintet, Munich 1966. Ghosts etc.

I'm not always in the mood for Albert but this does it. And excellent photography which compliments rather than distracts.

http://youtu.be/2HLE_JqP9Zk?si=PrsapGIhCP5fQgqZ

Absolutely wonderful, BN. Many thanks. The music is intensely moving and even better than on the rare Bordeaux video also provided by Jay Korber. Where does he find them?

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=0KItOU5jBuk

… and yet more stunning footage of Albert Ayler’s Quintet in Berlin, 1966. Thanks again, Jay Korber!

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=jol3rDRS0j8

JR

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

It is very moving isn't it. And conveys to me what they were about more than some other footage I've seen. There is something "cleansing" about the group particularly after listening to a load of over produced or production line music. Unique.

[elmo]

Gosh that's a stunning piece of film both for the music and quality of sound and the filming. I remember when those ESP albums came out in the mid 60's and the ire and scorn that was poured down on Aylers head - how wrong could they be....

elmo

[Ian Thumwood]

It is very moving isn't it. And conveys to me what they were about more than some other footage I've seen. There is something "cleansing" about the group particularly after listening to a load of over produced or production line music. Unique.

I probably have a similar view towards Ayler as yourself. What intrigues me is how freely he improvised. Not convinced that he was really the radical when it came to harmony . Always wondered if you notated his playing that he stuck to tonal centres. Sttange that he worked wuth Cecil Taylor who i feel was the complete opppsite and had more musical knowledge than Ayler.

i have a disc by Dave Liebman of Ornette's music where he muses on the same topic that Coleman was quote orthodox in this resepect. With Ayler, the folk element is far more dominant than any formal musical approach.

Have to say that i find Donald Ayler an awkward subject given the nature of his crimes after his musical career.

[Jazzrook]

More great footage, courtesy of Jay Korber, with Ornette Coleman, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden & Ed Blackwell, Berlin Jazztage, 1971.
Most contemporary jazz seems, to me, anaemic in comparison.

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=ASMOCAaUajQ

JR

[Serial_Apologist]

I probably have a similar view towards Ayler as yourself. What intrigues me is how freely he improvised. Not convinced that he was really the radical when it came to harmony . Always wondered if you notated his playing that he stuck to tonal centres.

From what I read somewhere, at the start Ayler played relatively conventionally if Sonny Rollins's influence could ever be in such terms. He then enjoyed a spell in the army, and it was after that that his entire approach changed. I must see those clips after I'm done with addressing and posting Xmas cards - thanks very much to Jazzrook.

[Ian Thumwood]

The earliest Ayler tracks sound like a less aasured Sonny Rollins.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

"Hargrove", a hour and a half documentary and interviews with Roy Hargrove at what turned out to be near the end of his life. I knew about all the drug stuff and in truth was a little impatient of that, but this gives you a much fuller picture of his life and issues. For one thing I didn't know he was on dialysis for c. fourteen years from a kidney birth defect. And from the look of his touring schedule and the later interviews was being almost worked to death when he should of been resting. At the end he just looked beaten. A massive talent. This also gives you a picture of "the industry". His manager gets few plaudits and refused to cooperate. No surprise.


https://youtu.be/liK1u6DQQ4M?si=3ApiAYXbTuBIE

[Jazzrook]

The earliest Ayler tracks sound like a less aasured Sonny Rollins.

Here’s Ayler’s stark live version of ‘Rollins’ Tune’(aka ‘No Moe’) recorded in Stockholm, 1962:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=xcazUid7D8E

JR

[Serial_Apologist]

Here’s Ayler’s stark live version of ‘Rollins’ Tune’(aka ‘No Moe’) recorded in Stockholm, 1962:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=xcazUid7D8E

JR

I managed to find the LP from which that track is taken going at a ridiculously low price second hand. It is a terrifying album - so much pain there.

[Tenor Freak]

One for Bluesnik...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgwSJYLjTjM

...actually he does a nice job on that.

[elmo]

Sonny Rollins with NHOP and Alan Dawson playing "Oleo" - Sonny at the peak of his powers. Wish I had seen him in the 60's

https://youtu.be/cdJSQF3AzX8?feature=shared

elmo

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

One for Bluesnik...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgwSJYLjTjM

...actually he does a nice job on that.

By any means necessary...

http://youtu.be/uTNCdKBdYTk?si=eURvnblQgCXvD_1G

[Jazzrook]

By any means necessary...

http://youtu.be/uTNCdKBdYTk?si=eURvnblQgCXvD_1G

Inspired by the timing of your exploding banjo post here’s B.B. King & ‘Three O’clock Blues’:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=d9ozjCQkqZs

JR

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

"Located in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, the Windsor banjo factory manufactured thousands of banjos over its lifetime until it was destroyed during World War II by an air raid in 1940"

They were aiming for George Formby. Still, it's an ill wind.